@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
Well Helen, I didn't graduate from any law school but I did graduate from the 6th grade and it just seems common sense for any hospital to acknowledge every patients right to designate whomever they choose to be their power of attorney/medical proxy Assuming they are adults and of relative sound mind. It just seems to me a matter of simple human rights.
The point here is a point of law - as the federal judge (mentioned in the link I posted) clearly stated when he threw out the lawsuit brought by a lesbian woman who couldn't visit her longtime companion in a hospital in Florida. And surely you know that only the legislature can change the law - not Obama.
These as simple, demonstrable, facts, are remain such no matter what ignorant Australian journalists or home-grown leftists choose to post or think. It's amazing to me that this subject - who the hell cares who can visit whom in a federal facility? - generates such heated, insulting, and (as here, though not in your case) risible responses. I'm just pointing out the FACTS to people who either don't know the law or choose to ignore it.
If the law is contrary to human rights - and since the US has definitely signed all related conventions - why, in your view, isn't anyone applying to the courts for the law to be repealed? The ACLU will do it for free, if you're interested, long as they think you have a case.
